“Their young live were over, too, except they had to die everyday while still breathing.”
“Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die.”
“Live while were young.”
“This is dying everyday. Over and over.”
“and Grenouille’s mother, who was still a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties, and who still was quite pretty and had almost all her teeth in her mouth and some hair on her head and – except for gout and syphilis and a touch of consumption – suffered from no serious disease, who still hoped to live a while yet, perhaps a good five or ten years, and perhaps even to marry one day and as the honorable wife of a widower with a trade or some such to bear real children... Grenouille’s mother wished that it were already over.”
“He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed”